Show t AeK ACK 4 r ti l J f. f 1 f I Si o w. w t 1 j I i J I. I fl if f fi j t I. I r r 1 I J- J f r. r j l' l 3 7 W 1 fL- fL y y N N t tI 1 0 li ie j E I j iA 1 i q Crowded Shipping on the MIn River at 1 I Prepared by tho the National N Geographic Goo clety Washington ton D. D C. C which once ranked faulted F among the tea ten ports of the world and then two decades ago ngo bowed boned to Ceylon and Japan Is Is staging a comeback r The steep slopes of Ful Ien province province ince luce of which Is capital and leading cit city again are covered with thriving tea bushes hushes b big men women and children thron throng the plantations picking tea leaves from dawn to dusk tea-laden tea porters form Tin n almost endless parade from the plantation to the tea w warehouses warehouses ware ware- re houses and boats hoats on the MIn piled with packages of tea recall the days when Yankee clipper ships cleared with cargoes of fra fragrant rant leaves destined to American ports port Is really not In the city's s suburbs The nearest gate In the cIt city's s mile five vine-clad vine wall wallIs Is more than three miles from the north bank of the Mm MIn about 34 31 miles from the sea Few travelers visit To reach the port one must go by boat for railroads and good roads are not notto notto notto to be found In this re region lon Oceangoing Oceangoing Ocean Orean- going goInges es vessels els from Shanghai and Hon Hong Kon Kong mal make e regular trips up the MIn which penetrates the Chinese Chinese Chi nese coast opposite the north end of Taiwan Formosa The vessel essel may nay steam up the thc river as far as Pagoda Anchorage e. e There passengers passengers passengers gers are transferred to launches which after nine miles of dodging matting matting covered covered sampans and gro grotesquely grotesquely ro carved pooped high-pooped Junks s. deposit their human cargo at the city's suburban docks If one wants to go native nathe however he may board a natives native's boat with the owners owner's owners owner's own ers er's rs r's family fowls dogs and pigs and travel In the atmosphere at- at atmosphere atmosphere of ot the MIn J The rivers river's obstruction at Pagoda Anchorage Is artificial formed when stone-laden stone barges were sunk there thereto to prevent a French fleet from reaching the city durin during the Franco Franco- v troubles In 1884 1534 It Is the characteristic of the Chinese love for things as they are that I business men have hare waited so lon lonto long longto to take steps to clear the channel and thus avoid the endless annoyance annoyance annoyance annoy annoy- ance of ot reloading of car cargoes oes From River to City The journey from the river to the city may be made by bus jinrikisha or sedan chair Frequently travelers travelers travel travel- ers prefer to be landed on the south southside southside side of ot the river ricer where they get geta a glimpse of the most modern portion portion portion por por- tion of the the foreign settlement set set- On a small hill are foreign for for- foreign eign Ign consulates western churches ho hospitals pIt ls and handsome residences which constitute a community a almost almost al al- most Independent of the Chinese city while below Is a business distrIct district district dis dis- with streets lined with foreIgn foreign foreign for for- eign and owned native shops where eastern and western merchandise Is Ison Ison Ison on display Commodious clubs wide sweeps of at grassy lawns dotted with flowering gardens a race track tennis tennis ten ten- nis 1115 courts and pleasure craft on the MIn lIn tend to keep the small for for- contented population The The visitor should not hurry Into proper even If it he could for to do so would be to miss the It physical beauties and fabled history ory that accentuate each step of the Journey from the ocean to the port Along the MIn one may see pearl diver er be drowned divers dicers Should a his fellows stoically conclude that he has bas fallen a victim to the sea- sea turtle Chinese equivalent for the thele serpent sea-serpent of at the West le legendary Pagoda oda Anchorage rises riseR s rear Near Sharp peak capped by a tower built hull t by a n wile wife to welcome home an oriental oriental ori orl- Enoch Arden who when he t thought he had mistaken the saw sate It river and sailed awa away again never ne return return A mandarins mandarin's footprint t to o tin in a n rock commemorates the summary sum sum- punishment of quarrymen men who r mary ar y r k kept kent right on chopping away awny Its footprint despite the c companion om p anion flow of blood that spurted out at each stroke When removed to a n pl place In to a n bridge It registered a by kicking Its bearers Into protest p the river eo the companion was not m molested Insl Inside Inside e the the wall a few tew tewo schools and government go modern ern a Ridings o s have punctuated an othere otherwise other other- f Ii ti wise vise e low flat Hat sky mine line of rather buildings Telegraph keys d dingy i ngY click In telegraph offices electric lights are aro available to those who can cnn afford them a few automobile automobiles may be seen on the main man streets and western fashions vie with those of at the Orient But If the traveler tra steps Into a n side street he steps Into an era em of several centuries past Streets that twist and turn and come to a abrupt rupt stops were marked features of early city planners For example the tortuous tortuous tortu tortuous ous route of one street might be vis vis' visualized unused b by drawing a diagram It begins by running eastward and then northward eastward north northward northward ward eastward northward eastward eastward east east- ward southward westward south southward southward southward ward southeastward southward westward southward eastward and southward Travelers Use Sedan Chairs The whole course of this thoroughfare thoroughfare thor thor- Is equal to but a few American city blocks In length and nowhere Is It even en wide wIlle enough for fora a jinrikisha to pass without driving playing children and their playmates play play- mates mates filthy dogs and pigs pIgs Into Into bordering doorways s The sedan chair Is used by hy most travelers to penetrate the passageways passageways passage passage- ways where the odors permeating the atmosphere are so overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing to foreign foreIn nostrils that chair bearers are urged on to the nearest breathing spaces Ancient as seems to be beto beto beto to the westerner It Is a sort of wild west of China to the natives of Canton Canton Can Can- ton and In the days of Confucius all nil China looked ed upon the re region lon that now Is Fulden provInce province pray pray- ince as ns the bailiwick of barba barba- rians The wall waIl that encompasses the city did not rise until the Ming l period which covered the years that America was discovered and colon coon While hile poor transportation facU for reaching have ha constituted con con- an important factor In keepIng keep keeping Ing the city truly oriental cholera and the bubonic plague have hare also en caused used outsiders to give gI It a wide berth Perhaps the portion of a tour Is a visit to the tea facto factories ies and warehouses where tea leaves eaves scented with Jasmines roses and chrysanthemums are sorted sorted sorted sort sort- ed from dawn awn to dusk tusk by Chinese women and children Last year exported more than pounds of tea and re re ex ex exported ported an additional pounds which were shipped to Its tea per per- There are more than forty tea ten factories In the city The open shops along the Foo Foo- chow streets reveal re thousands of natives nati ekin eking out an existence In various Industries Before ones one's onese e eyes es artisans make wooden pillows and Images of gods and odd locking beasts cabinet makers turn out fancy furniture potters shape and fire Ore handsome vessels prick brick makers fashion their products In all shapes sizes and colors both hoth men and women men sit silently embroidering or wearing the dark cloth usually worn by peasants and d dyers ers with Inky hands seemingly turn oJ old garments Into new of a different color The Dog Worshipers On a n mountain not far from the city one encounters the dog worshipers wor war easily casIly easily distinguished by the peculiar coiffure of their women a n scaffold like effect with a cord I dan dangling lIng before the face This Is worn because of a m myth th which holds that a dog once saved sn the city and the gods rewarded him by subjectIng subject subject- Ing him to a proc process ss by which he was to become human after his Incarceration incarceration In in- for seven times forty days An Impatient provincial Pandora Pandora Pan Pan- dora lifted the cover corer s Ihen hen all but buthIs buthis buthis his head had been transformed and thus left a do headed dog man In goIng going go go- Ing to claim his bride his face was covered so his canine features might not offend her So to this day the women of the mountain wear the headdress In honor of ot him and on New v Years Year's day they worship worship wor wor- ship the Image of ot a n dog Near the city of at Doctrine hill which derives this one of Its many names from the residence there of ofa a n certain learned man who accumulated accumulated a library library-a a volume 40 shelf known as the Doctrine of the Universe erse |